Show ac peer A StantiaixHExaminer pA W ' - na Sunday Aug 5 19S0 Senate trims defense budget Bush readies veto pen WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate approved a $289 billion -- defense bill Saturday that cuts $1 Ibillion from President Bush’s re-- “ quest for the Strategic Defense Initiative but leaves intact his fiscal 1991 proposal for two 2 'bombers ‘ In a rush to finish before a summer recess the Senate adopt-:e- d 6 a military budget that slashes $18 billion from Bush's request of $307 billion for the fiscal vear beginning Oct I “We have developed a manageable and prudent and responsible reduction in defense B-- 79-1- related to the threat" Senate Armed Services Chairman Sam Nunn D-said shortly before the chamber approved one of the first military expenditures War era The Senate package adopted despite the threat of a presidential veto calls for a military personnel reduction of 100000 and elimination of$l6 billion in procurement money for the MX missile program The White House has said Defense Secretary Dick Cheney would recommend a presidential veto because of the SDI total and budgets in the post-Col- d rail-garris- troop cuts The objection comes even though the Senate bill is considered the high mark in Congress The House when it returns in September will likely approve its committee’s version of a $283 billion defense bill Senators lingered as legislative loners in the Capitol as House members commenced their August recess in the hours During a marathon session they passed campaign finance reform legislation a bill containing assistance for areas hardest hit by AIDS cases and an early-morni- environmental protection sure arising from the Exxon Valdez oil spill off Alaska Shortly before adjourning until Sept 10 the Senate also passed a bill appropriating roughly $28 billion for transportation programs for the new year including money for upgrading the nation’s airports mass transit systems and Amtrak And sources said that an intelligence budget for 1991 passed by voice vote during the previous session eliminates US support for a covert war in Cambodia and sharply restricts sident Bush huddled Saturday with senior advisers to devise a strategy for pushing Iraqi occupation forces out of Kuwait while Kuwait" The Bush administration has an Iraqi envoy announced that “Kuwaiti authorities" were now expressed doubts about Iraq’s h nation in control of the pledge first delivered on Friday 2 Mohammed Sadiq Mashat the to begin withdrawing its invasion force from Kuwait on Sunday Iraqi ambassador to the United “I assure you he does not instate1 States read a government tend to withdraw" Saud Nasir ment reiterating Baghdad’s intethe Kuwaiti ambassansion to begin withdrawing from dor told reporters at a news con1 Kuwait today “unless a threat to 2he security of Kuwait or Iraq ference shortly after the Iraqi ambassador spoke in Washing“has - Mashat speaking at the Iraqi ton 2 Embassy also said Iraq will not “They (Iraqi forces) have al'attack Saudi Arabia the world’s ready dug in They have already largest oil exporter and he condug in the south along the Saudi firmed that 11 of 14 Americans border they have dug in our missing in Kuwait had been country deeply They have taken 2 found taken to Baghdad and are over the central bank They have 2 now free to leave the country ransacked all the banks in Ku2 The ambassador declined to wait all the institutions They 'elaborate on the Americans’ have even gone to the low of going into houses and taking priplight vate property" Mashat said the troop was deemed possible bea member of Kucause order had been restored wait's ruling family said the 2 “The situation in Kuwait is Iraqi forces have “conducted iback to normal" he said “Secu-'rit- y themselves in a way that no othand stability are maintained er occupying force has” ! Iraq ‘ oil-ric- ' ment with--draw- al V from 1A Jks sales tax exemption on food padding an estimated $110 million 4jn revenues to government cof- fers 5 Hn 1986 the Louisiana Legisl- ature suspended the state’s statut- ory sales tax exemption on food One recent move in the opposite direction is facing a legal Challenge in Georgia The legislature there enacted a r partial exemption on fresh meats ? vegetables and staples to take but it has been Sept in the courts by retailer j and wholesaler associations ' I They: have said the problem - iith administering Georgia’s tax fcreak comes in trying to distinguish at the cash register which C products are taxable In Louisiana today groceries I are taxed at 3 percent but witef-ffc- 1 chal-teng- 3 hout another exemption suspension ordered by the Legislature ithat tax could expire June 30 21991 ' “It was a mea revenue-raisin- g ct ed Louisiana “There was a deficit in the budget and the suspension was one of many items that was examined and used" At the time percent of tax on groceries raised about $180 million Today because many items such as health-car- e products and drugs are sheltered from the tax percent of tax raises about $120 million he said 1 1 Gauthier said Louisiana had taxed food until 1970 but healthy economic times prompt- e ed a into possible tax reduction “There was probably a surplus and the sales tax on food and drugs was one of the things looked at to cut back" Gauthier said “It was probably viewed as an extra burden on the poor" Scott Mackey fiscal policy associate with the National Conference of State Legislatures said the attitude among many states is that it’s not fair to tax food for home consumption “Food is a basic necessity of life and it’s extremely regressive to look-se- had they no of US crewmen being seized In London the Defense Ministry said Iraqi soldiers took 35 A woman holds a Kuwaiti flag in support of her homeland tax jt because people spend a significantly larger portion of their income on that basic low-inco- necessity “You shouldn’t make it harder to afford that basic necessity by imposing a sales tax” Mackey said A recent report issued by the state of Utah confirmed the regressiveness of the tax showing those with annual incomes of $5000 to $7500 pay an estimat- ed 29 percent of their income toward sales tax on food while families making $25000 to $30000 pay 07 percent and those making $80000 to $90000 a year use 03 percent Actions to exempt food from sales tax have generally come through state legislatures Mackey said “I think the initiative thing like in Utah is a relatively isolated occurrence” One state to exempt food from sales tax through the ballot box is Washington Voters there passed an initiative in 1977 to exempt groceries from the state’s saies tax The impact was not small Exempting food from the sales tax cost state and local governments $500 million a year said Jerry Pugnetti public affairs manager for the Washington Stae Department of Revenue The state’s annual budget not including local government budgets runs about $7 billion “For us there’s a little more 'impact than other states because we don’t have an income tax so we rely more heavily on sales tax It provides roughly half our revenue” he said The exemption on food took effect in July 1978 and has been in place since then except for a one-yeperiod from 1982 to 1983 when it was suspended to help a fiscally ailing state budget Pugnetti said When the exemption went into effect he said the revenue loss was absorbed without causing massive cutbacks “But the point is that during that time it was an expanding economy so things were fine but in the early ’80s when the bottom fell out and we had a recession it meant taxes had to be raised” he said ar to a asmiHMH’ wuriren— weoaB—aiifW : said information to confirm the report ah sure" said Ned Gauthier tax research analyst for the state of ber's approved total of $37 billion for SDI — $1 billion less than Bush proposed From 1A ships steamed toward the Persian Gulf and French Foreign Minister Roland Dumas said France would consider supporting a naval blockade of Iraq In Washington the Pentagon said a third aircraft carrier would head for the Middle East to bolster the eight-shi- p US Navy presence already there President Bush said Friday that if Iraq moved against Saudi Arabia it would be attacking US “vital interests” Arab leaders warned against foreign intervention in the region and sought a diplomatic solution but an emergency Arab League summit to discuss the crisis initially planned for Sunday in Saudi Arabia was postponed Persian Gulf shipping sources said Iraqi troops seized the crews of all ships docked at Kuwaiti ' ports and impounded the vessels The crews from many nations included at least 20 Americans the sources said However spokesmen at the US State Depart- for all the population — indigenous and resident Kuwaiti authorities are consolidating their control over all aspects of life in (AP) — Pre- 54-4- post-midnig- ht Bush advisers ponder &II options in Mideast r WASHINGTON money for rebels in Afghanistan Many of the details in the bill are secret since it authorizes some of the nation's most sensitive covert operations Passage of the defense bill came after the Senate voted to restructure the SDI program commonly known as Star Wars by delaying deployment of the “Brilliant Pebbles" concept 4 the Senate By a vote of approved a restructuring amendment that leaves intact the cham- mea- British servicemen acting as advisers to Kuwaiti forces from their homes in Kuwait overnight It said they were later flown to Baghdad The servicemen were among 66 British military advisers in Kuwait Britain said it has been assured by Iraq that all 35 were safe Kuwaiti diplomatic sources who contacted Kuwaiti residents by telephone said Iraqi tanks and troops had begun to withdraw from downtown Kuwait city Gulf-base-d Arab diplomatic sources who are in contact with Snake From 1A aline goes you get tense it’s fun A lot of things are going through your head” Theobald said Rogers who participated in two of the shuttles on Friday said the first run was from McKay-De- e Hospital to St Benedict’s The was next batch of a hosshuttled from Salt pitals while another run originated in Provo by Transporting the airplane might seem quicker and anti-veno- m Lake-are- anti-veno- m However the measure scales back the administration's request for the Brilliant Pebbles concept from $329 million to $129 nyl- - lion Nunn criticized the Pentagon for trying four different systems for the SDI program in the past three years while Congress hasn’t received “one clue from anybody in this administration" on howno shield pay for the “No one can tell you where the money's coming from and yet they're charging straight ahead" Nunn said noting the likely annual cost of $10 billion for SDI anti-missi- le their embassies in Kuwait said there was scattered shooting and looting by Iraqi troops in the Kuwaiti capital Iraqi soldiers broke into banks supermarkets ard automobile showrooms driving Off with luxury cars the diplomatic sources said Three US oil workers missing since the Iraqi invasion turn- ed up in Baghdad apparently unharmed the State Department said in Washington An official said US authorities were told eight other Americans had also been taken there in a group of 24 Westerners Iraq’s US ambassador said the Americans would be free to leave US officials who earlier said 14 Americans were missing said the 11 Americans may account for all those thought I missing Iraq said the new Kuwaiti government is headed by Col Ala Hussein Ali He holds the pqsi-tioof prime minister commander in chief of the armed forces minister of defense and interior minister The other eight members were lieutenant colonels and majors Diplomatic sources elsewhere in the gulf however said those names could be fake or the people on the list could actuallybe Iraqis “I assure you that none I repeat none of the names put forward are Kuwaiti nationality or citizenship” said the Kuwaiti ambassador in Washington and a member of the royal family “They are all Iraqi military people” Also Saturday Baghdad radio broadcast a communique from the “provisional government of free Kuwait” announcing it was creating a popular army tha-would accept all Arab nationals “who wish stability for Kuwaiffo its new age” ns t more logical but Lt John Danks said automobiles are more efficient for a number of reasons-’- : “Lots of times you can't an range for a plane as fast as you can for a car on a roadway Our planes could be anywhere in tHS state on other missions” Danks said the department's shuttle service has been arouptl for as long he can remember The statewide service is impter mented only in situations for transporting iteijis from hospital to hospital he saick “Once in awhile you get certain kinds of medications but blood is the primary item” he said iwtwsBgSBMM— w weather outlook Today’s — — 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